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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Would you go back?

So it’s just past the 26thanniversaryof my last visit to Spain, a visitthatdidn’t
go entirely to plan and indeed one which quite dramaticallychanged my life. But those 26 years
have flown by and much has happened since, including getting married, having
three amazing children, getting divorced, having another amazing child and more
recently a grandson! As I write this I am only a few days away from returning
to Spain for the first time and I can’t help butwonder if it will be a happy return.

You see, as I've said,its more or less 26 years to the day
that I arrived back inthe UK from Marbellawith nothing more than the clothes I
was wearing,ripped jeans anda white shirt which still had thelingeringstale smell of smoke. I’dsaved two lives,beenwrongly
arrested for arson and manslaughter, spenttime
in jail and counted each slab of the pavementas
I jumped bailandhitched a lift or two to catch my
flight back home from Malaga airport! As I hiked35 milesin that furnace of heat with sweat
pouring off me, I wondered if I would make it through passport control and
leavetheCosta de Sol once and for all. Now I'm
wondering if I will be allowed to return to Spain.

Would you go back?

The story of my trip,which has been heard, read and
reviewed around the world is called WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME and it featurestheeventssurroundingmy nightmare visitto and escape from Marbella.

Now that I am returning to Spain for
the first time and as its getting closer to the day of jetting off, how do I
feel? Well, at the moment I think my family are more concerned than I am,worried about me being allowedin, even more worried that I will be re-arrestedfor skipping bail. To be honest, I
don't think I willbeas I did hear a rumour that the people
who causedthe fire were caught
andanother thatthe fireactually startedfrom an accident in the hotel kitchen.
But what will happen as I hand over my passport?

Of course I've been overseas many
times since, to America, Greece, France, Amsterdam, I’ve even lived in Portugal
and Madeira, but will I be stopped at the Spanish border? Who knows? Wouldn’t
it make for agreat sequel though?
My family don’t think so! What do you think?

How am I feeling about returning to
Spain? Well, many emotions have started to run wild in my headand a number of words, which best
describe my feelings, spring to mind:trepidation,
nervousness,fear, apprehension,
too many to mention. But yes I can feel the nerves kicking in, the moment I
land in Spain, get off that plane and walk to passport control, my memories of
my previous time in Spain, will come flooding back!

Just writing this has made me apprehensive,but I have always wanted to return to
the place I thought I would never leave, the country in which I thought I would
spend some of my life behind bars. Why would I want to return you may ask? To
clear my name? To see if I am allowed back? All of those,but also I'm mainly going back to
spend a few days in the sun and relax with my girlfriend.

So,to
look on the bright side, if there ever was one,of my trip26 years ago,well Iwrote about it and the book became a
best seller andsince thenI’ve written six more books,with many more in the pipeline. So Iguess that in some ways I should be
grateful for my Spanish nightmare, but I will be happy never to repeat it.

I will of course let you all knowif I was admitted without being
arrestedwhen I'm sipping a
cocktail or two beside the pool at thevilla
we are staying at. If you don't hear from me BUTinsteadfrom my girlfriend, Julie, then youwillknowthatI
have returned to the WRONG PLACE WRONG TIME!